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I was going to write a post.
I was going to tell you all about the awesome four day weekend I had this weekend just past.
I was going to tell you about bookstores and masturdating and parks and recreation and old fucks and Buddha by the rhododendron and fishing and fiction.
But no.
I can't do that right now.
Because fuck me, that's why.
I let the doc put me on geodon. It's an antipsychotic. Hear me out. I had it on good authority that it could, in fact, help with the mixed episodes I've been experiencing a lot lately.
Problem is…turns out I'm allergic to the shit. Severely.
I've been throwing up for 2-3 days straight, no chaser. Seriously. I chased it with anti-vomityourgutsup juice, and I vomited the anti-vomityourgutsup juice out.
Big ass rash spreading across the back of my neck.
Bubbles on my arm (blister).
Dizziness and worsening headache.
Confusion. Randomly stopping myself mid-thought or even mid-sentence.
Massive edema.
Fucking. (Yeah right. No such luck.)
Torn up guts.
Itching. Did I mention this COOKIEMONSTERFORSAKEN ITCHING?! MOTHERFUCK, I ITCH.I'd pay somebody to scratch my itch, but I think that's called solicitation.
Anyway. The one thing it geodon DIDN'T fuck with, clearly, is my ragingly filthy mind. So there's that. And also my cookiediction. Me want cookies. Now. (Also. May I borrow someone's kids so I can "not" teach them this lesson by what is obviously The Real Cookie Monster, please stand up?)
The one thing I DIDN'T get as a side effect was the heart-racing arrhythmia. It's a damn good thing, because if that box had gotten ticked, he was going to have to admit me. My heart was not only NOT racing, it was lower than he's ever recorded it. 42. I think? OH MY GOD, MY HEART IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?! I KNEW IT!
Anyturtles. My GP said I met every single other criterion for the Rare and Severe reactions. Yay me!
A man once told me I was rare. Now I know what he meant. RARE AND SEVERE AND FUCKED UP.
I kid.
Except I don't kid. You kid. Keep the kids over there. Because I'm MANGRY.
On top of forvomigen, the nausea med he gave me that doesn't work, he also gave steroids. Lots and lots of steroids that I have to take for six fucking days.
He asked if I had any issue taking short-term steroids to stop my allergic responses and wipe out the rash. I said no, except Hulk. He was mildly puzzled, then laughed when I said YOU know….then I made rage face and said Hulk Angry! Only some of that actually happened. I'll let you work it out.
So I'm on steroids for a week. And I'm sweating and angry and itching and sore. AND NOT FOR ANY OF THE FUN REASONS.
And I can't make my brainhole focus on the things I WANTED to write about.
Fucking fuckstick douchecanoe handledick. Oooo handledick. New one. That works a myriad of ways, that one.
Anyway. I'm gonna fuck off outta here.
Just wanted to say Hi.
Just wanted to say I'm Pissed Off.
Just wanted to say I Miss You.
Just wanted to say Bye Fuckers, Because ME MANGRY.
Oh. And for what it's worth? Either I was on one of my upswings already, or geodon was actually helping me. Because starting the drug coincided with the start of a major uptick in my moods and mindset. So. Let's hope it wasn't the geodon. Because now I'm pissed that I can't take it anymore. WAAAAAAH. Look at me. Crying like a bitch. MANGRY.
P.S. If that mangry music isn't your thing, mute it and watch. Because Sully Erna is in Fine Fucking Form here. Shirtless. Shoeless. Perfect jeans. Yum. You know what? I'll take my steroids with a side of Sully. (Unfortunately, that's the only good part of the video. The rest of it is wrestling or boxing or nascar or some other lame shit where grownass boys beat each other up for money.) (Hey, don't start in on me! I told you I'm mangry! It's in the title! FUCKING STEROIDS. GRAWR.) (But now I'm sleepy and itchy and mangry and hungry and sweaty and ARRGGGHHHHHHH I SAID GOOD DAY!)
P.S. Numberonius Twovicus. How about a preview of last weekend, hm?


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Earlier this month the people behind NPR's Science Friday radio show took some time to have a Legal Friday. On that day, they filed a suit against a minister/broadcaster named Bob Enyart for calling his Colorado-based radio program "Real Science Friday."
NPR's Science Friday is a multimedia machine with radio broadcasts on NPR, podcasts, online content, and more. It's backed by the Science Friday Initiative, which performs additional outreach intended to help give the public access to the latest in science.
Enyart's program also has all of the above (the radio program, the podcasts, the YouTube videos). But it lacks the backing of a foundation—and the science part. His "Real Science Friday" website (Tagline: "Don't Be Fooled by NPR's parody titled Science Friday ;)") contains a variety of standard creationist material, much of it attacking evolution, but some of it arguing for a Universe that's only a few thousand years old as well.
Having listened to one "Real Science Friday" podcast about how caterpillars destroy atheism (don't ask), I came away feeling like I lost a few IQ points in the process. While Ars feels that Enyart and his partner, Fred Williams, should probably be sued for false advertising in calling their material "science," Science Friday is suing the two podcasters for trademark violations, cybersquatting, and false advertising in passing themselves off as the NPR program.
The suit notes that Science Friday has five registered trademarks and claims that the creationist group is diluting them and confusing consumers. Science Friday says that in iTunes, the creationist podcast shows up in searches and in the "Listeners also subscribed to" section. On Google, it lands on top of the second page of results ahead of several legitimate web pages. (As of this writing, both of those facts stand.)
The suit demands a variety of relief for the NPR program, asking that the creationists be made to stop using the logo in electronic form, turn over the Internet domain, and hand over any physical materials (like CDs) that bear the logo. Enyart would also have to purge the term from all electronic outlets—YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, and the Feedburner RSS service. "Real Science Friday" would have to turn over its financial records as well, and would face financial damages as determined by the courts.
The suit was filed on Science Friday's home turf in the New York State Supreme Court.

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The Meaning of the Term "Ji" in the Indian Culture: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
In the Indian culture, we sometimes add the word "ji" at the end of someone's name to convey respect.
For example, if someone's name is Ashok, and we want to convey warmth and respect, we call him Ashok-ji. If someone's name is Maya, we call her Maya-ji.
However, in the Indian culture, no one will ask or demand that we add "ji" when addressing them to show respect. That would be very uncool. It would actually be humorous. It is up to us when we want to add the "ji" after the name of the person. There is no compulsion that we have to add "ji" to the name of everyone we meet and greet.
Typically, the older people when calling on younger people or children will not use the term "ji", but just call them by their name. Similarly, friends greeting each other will not add the term "ji" to the names of their friends as they are equals.
Younger people when talking to their parents will automatically add "ji" after the designation. For example, the father may be called Papa-ji or Bapu-ji (instead of just Papa or Bapu) and the mother may be referred to as Mata-ji (instead of just Mata).
Grandfather and Grandmother on father's side are called Dada-ji and Dadi-ji respectively. Grandfather and Grandmother on mother's side are called Nana-ji and Nani-ji respectively.
In referring to one's teacher, one typically calls the person Master-ji or Guru-ji, etc.
In the Western world, this phenomenon of adding the term "ji" after someone's name is not well understood.
Some modern Satsang teachers have made "ji" simply part of their chosen spiritual nickname, hence forcing people to use the respectful term "ji", whether they want to or not, when they refer to such teachers.
For example, let us say that a satsang teacher has chosen the spiritual nickname of Foo. Now Foo is the actual name. By adding "ji" to it, the name itself is made into Fooji. Everything then gets convoluted.
Everyone referring to Mr. Foo is forced to call Mr. Foo, Fooji! This essentially means "Respected Foo." The option to call Mr. Foo, simply Foo or Mr. Foo is thus taken off the table. The name Fooji is hence imposed on the innocent whether they wish to use the term "ji" to refer to the person or not.
Recently, I have noticed that some of the students of such teachers have also started adding "ji" to their own made up spiritual nicknames. This practice of adding "ji" to one's own name has always struck me as a bit odd and also comical and shows a cultural misunderstanding.
The practice of adding the "ji" behind one's own name is a distinctly Western practice based on a misunderstanding of the Indian culture and how the term "ji" has been historically used and is actually used. Such a practice appears to be an attempt by some people (based on insecurity) to ask others for some respect when referring to them. This addition of "ji" as part of a name reflects the fear that no respect will be forthcoming without the added "ji" to the name.
There are other examples as well of people adopting high sounding spiritual names, etc. All such things, of course, have some entertainment value and I do not diminish that part of the spiritual circus.
For a true devotee, however, change of name and dress for outward show is not important. Real spiritual growth and Self Realization have absolutely nothing to do with such things at all.
Just my two cents and homespun wisdom for the day.
Please feel free to share this to help educate the new people just getting on to the spiritual path on the proper use of the term "ji".
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Movie Music and Its Recognizability
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The Setup
The first movie score I remember completely listening through separate of the movie it was written for was John Williams' score to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Since then, my interest in film scores and, subsequently, my personal collection, have grown considerably, leading to my current collection of 116 complete instrumental film scores, plus several individual themes. Typically, a movie will have what is considered the "theme song," with some of the most iconic being those for Star Wars, Superman, and Pirates of the Caribbean, among others. When considering those that everyone seems to recognize in comparison to others that may be less recognizable, I grew curious; what made some movie theme songs more recognizable than others? I decided to do some research on this, assuming that there had to be some sort of correlation between the most recognizable film themes and between the least recognizable film themes.
I first went through my iTunes library and compiled a list of what I personally considered to be the most recognizable movie themes. I did not set a limit for myself, only knowing that I wanted diversity; I wanted to be sure to include originals and remakes (i.e. old Star Trek vs. new Star Trek, old Batman vs. new Batman, etc.), several themes by the same composers, and themes from movies that were made by the same production studio, which is why I used themes from four different Pixar movies. Selecting anything and everything that fit within these parameters while remaining what I considered to be "recognizable," my list came out to forty-one individual "theme songs." From there, I selected ten- to twenty-second-long clips of the main themes from each score and put them all into a playlist. I arranged the themes so that no two themes by the same composer were located right next to each other on the playlist, and likewise for originals/remakes or Pixar films. The playlist can be found in the following YouTube video:
Once this had been done, I had to decide what I was going to use to categorize and compare each theme to one another so I could see what it was that made each one recognizable or not, so I created the following survey:
The reasoning behind each question is as follows: Name, Classification, Birth Year) I will admit that, because the three classes whose data I used were all classes that I was in, I only asked for the names of the participants so that I could see how my friends did. As for Classification and Birth Year, I ended up not using this data because it proved irrelevant; most participants were born within a five-year period, with too little variation to figure that data into the results. Title) Asking for an answer whether they knew (or thought they knew) for sure or not would allow me to factor in the subconscious. Sometimes, you can remember things on instinct rather than on knowledge, and so I thought that it would be interesting to see in the results. 1) Asking whether or not they had seen the film (again, or thought they had seen it) that they thought the theme was associated with allowed me to see if the recognition of a theme was based on experience or cultural permeation. As shown in the results, not all of the most recognizable film themes were seen by everyone who was surveyed, showing a deeper level of cultural permeation. 2-4) While not every film theme ever composed can fit into these categories, I thought that people would be able to fit each theme into at least three of these six categories without stretching the imagination too much. Having each person sort each theme as they saw fit gave me an opportunity to see how people think; if there was a trend for the more recognizable film themes versus an opposite (or simply different) trend for the less recognizable themes, I could attribute it to the categories that they fell in.
I visited four college classes in total, though I had to throw out the results from one class due to not being able to complete the survey before the class ended. In each class, I passed out the two-page survey, explained the rules as outlined at the top of the page, answered any questions, and got started. Playing each clip only once, I gave an average of about twenty to thirty seconds between each clip in which the students could answer all five questions. The main reason for this speed was so as not to take up more of the teacher's class time than necessary, though I certainly wish that I could have made it a bit less frantic. Each class took about twenty-five minutes to get through the whole survey, and, with fifteen students in each class, that brought the total number of participants up to forty-five.
The Data
Data entry was more complex than I had initially anticipated, mainly because there was so much of it; doing the math, I discovered that, with three classes, fifteen students in each class, forty-one film themes, and five questions per theme, the total number of possible cells of data in Microsoft Excel was over nine thousand (15 x 3 x 41 x 5 = 9, 225). It took six hours to input the data for the first class alone, with me working over a span of three days for several hours each day in order to get the data from all three classes completely inputted into an Excel spreadsheet. I inputted each class separately, sorting the data by film, so the data looked like this:
As I inputted the answers for the first two questions (the title of the film and whether or not they had seen it), I used the number value "1" for incorrect answers and for people who had not seen the film, and I used the number value "0" for correct answers and for people who had seen the film. When these numbers were averaged together, the result was a percentage which, as the above picture shows, represents the percentage of people who guessed the title incorrectly and the percentage of people who had not seen the film, so flipping the percentage would result in the opposite (correct percentage, seen percentage). I made a couple of assumptions when inputting the data for the second column: I only counted a movie as "seen" if the person put a definite "yes" as their answer, which means that I marked that they had not seen it if they put "maybe," "not sure," or simply left the space blank. I did this because I wanted to only include definite "yeses" or, in other words, people who were confident enough in their answer or who knew they had definitely seen the film but the title escaped them. Aside from averaging together the totals of the categorical values, I kept track of one more piece of data: how many times someone guessed the wrong movie but managed to guess another movie with a score composed by the same composer, which I figured into the results later.
The Results
Speaking of results, the most recognizable film themes were mostly what I expected, though I was surprised by a couple of exclusions from the top of the list, namely John Williams' themes to the original 1978 Superman film and to the 1982 film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. It is interesting to note that John Williams' theme for the Harry Potter film franchise is the only theme that was universally guessed correctly and seen, with his theme for the Star Wars saga being in a close second. In fact, the top three most recognized film themes are all Williams compositions, with the fact that roughly only half of the participants had seen Jaws showing the depth to which both the film and Williams' theme music have permeated our culture. The other film theme with a notable drop from percentage correct to percentage seen is Monty Norman's original theme to the James Bond films. With twenty-three films featuring the character and this theme song to date, the most recent having been released just last year, it is easy to see why so many people were able to guess it correctly.
In comparison, you can see that all but two of the least recognizable film themes had less than fifty percent of people saying that they had seen it, with Randy Newman's theme to the Pixar film A Bug's Life and Alan Silvestri's theme to Night at the Museum being the exceptions. Also, the only two film themes that nobody was able to guess correctly were James Horner's theme to The Amazing Spider-Man and John Williams' theme to War Horse, which is intriguing because it puts John Williams themes at both the extreme top and extreme bottom of the list. This list also includes three films whose scores were nominated for Best Original Score at the Academy Awards. What caused this? Now that I knew the results, what conclusions could be drawn?
The Analysis
Looking at the category results for the most recognized film themes, there is quite a bit of variation. For example, in the sad to happy category, four of the six themes were considered to be happier (higher bars), while the themes for Jaws and Titanic were both thought of as sad. Taking these variations into consideration, I decided that it would be more practical to find the average of the four "happier" themes rather than average all six values together, so the idea was to find the trend rather than the average. This led to the shown values, or 6.5 in the sad to happy category (moderately happy), 7.6 in the pretty to exciting category (mostly exciting), and 4.8 in the light to dark category (neither one nor the other). The results for the least recognizable films…
…show just as much variation, though, by looking at the typical trend, a couple of basic observations can be made. The sad to happy rating is about the same as it was for the most recognizable film themes at about a 6.5 (moderately happy), with a 4.3 in the pretty to exciting category (moderately pretty), and a 3.1 in the light to dark category (mostly light). Between the two graphs, the following basic observations can be made: the more recognizable film themes are generally more exciting, and the least recognizable film themes are considered to be slightly lighter. Perhaps this reveals that the combination of exciting music with a darker tone makes for a more recognizable film theme, while prettier and lighter is more forgettable.
However, due to the large variation from theme to theme in categorical rating, I am unwilling to put all of my faith in these values. There was too much room for error in these results; many people did not provide ratings for the categories for every single film on the survey, meaning that I had to leave blanks in the spreadsheet. This also means that this data is not entirely representative of the whole group, unlike the first two questions (film title and seen/not), for which data exists for all forty-five students. What questions can be asked based on these first two questions alone?
Further Questions
It occurred to me that the release year of the movie might be a factor, especially among the general age group of these participants, the majority of whom were born between the years of 1985 and 1994. Using the same list of most and least recognizable film themes, taking note of the release year of each movie, or, for series like Star Wars, the release year of the first movie in the series, and averaging them together, you can see that the average release year of the most recognizable is about twenty years older than the average release year of the least recognizable. To confirm that this is indeed a correlation, I took the average of all of the films located between the most and least recognized and averaged their release years together, which ended up being 1996, showing that my suspicions appear to be correct. Though the majority of the test group had not yet been born in 1986, these results could suggest that the more time that the film and its music have spent in "cultural circulation," the more likely it is to be recognized by the general population, which is why the newer themes, some from as recent as 2012, were not as widely recognized by the participants.
The final bit of data I took into consideration was the average domestic box office gross of each film. I assumed that the higher the box office gross for a film, the more likely that it would have permeated the culture; a higher box office gross means that more people saw the film. For series of films, I averaged the domestic box office gross of every film in the series to come up with the average per film in the series, then averaging together all of the most recognizable themes and the least recognizable, as well as for all of the films in between for confirmation, and the results once again seem to support the theory.
Not shown above is the average for the middle films, which came out to be $241,059,348, showing the correlation. Five of the most recognizable films, or, at least, films from the series, are located on the list of the top twenty highest-grossing films of all time, while none of the least recognizable films are located anywhere higher than forty-eight on that same list. This is a correlation that makes sense in that it monitors the number of people who are theoretically familiar with the film.
The demographics of the participants varied significantly from class to class; I classified one class as "non-music majors," the second class as "music majors," and the third, a class about the cultural relevance of superheroes, I affectionately referred to as "the geeks." I would not have separated these demographics if I had not noticed a significant difference between each class. The "non-music major" class had the fewest number of film themes that everyone guessed correctly, with only two, whereas the "music majors" had the highest number of themes that everyone guessed correctly, with six. Additionally, the "music majors" had several people leaving more cells blank than people in the other two classes, meaning that they were more careful with their answers, resulting in the higher number of themes that were unanimously guessed correctly. The "geeks" came in second place with five themes that everyone guessed correctly; these people I considered more likely to be people like me, who spend more time with the movies and their music than the average person.
The Composers
Leaving behind the argument of what makes the theme recognizable or not, I did my best to choose selections from a variety of composers, but, of course, John Williams is hard to avoid when you are creating a list of most recognizable film themes, so he appears on the playlist eleven times. As mentioned before, I kept track of how many times someone guessed the wrong movie but still guessed another movie with a score composed by the same composer. I multiplied how many times a composer appeared in the playlist by forty-five, the number of participants, to show how many times it was possible for the group to guess the composer's themes correctly, and then I divided the number of times the wrong film but correct composer was named in order to get a percentage of how many people guessed him correctly.
I have always said that all of Hans Zimmer's scores sound the same, and now I have proof (kidding)! These percentages are exactly what I would have expected; I have always argued that John Williams' music is recognizable because he has a distinct sound, whereas Zimmer's music is recognizable because all of his themes sound the same. Something to note is that William's highest number of incorrect guesses while still guessing the correct composer was eight with his theme for Superman, while Zimmer's themes for Inception and the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy each had ten incorrect guesses, with most people switching up the two films…because they sound the same! I mean this mostly in jest, though the results certainly seem to support my argument. Another interesting tidbit of information gathered from this data is that the number of people who guessed Randy Newman's themes (A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc.) guessed either Toy Story (another Newman score) or some other Pixar film, most often Ratatouille, which was scored by Michael Giacchino. This general association of Pixar music sounding the same is one reason why I wanted to include multiple made by the same production company; it shows that people associate similar films together, even by the music.
This study was by no means perfect. If I could do it again, I would arrange to have more time to complete each survey for each group. Twenty-five minutes, though it allows completion of the survey, is too rushed, not giving people time to think. Although a gut reaction could be encouraged, I think relaxing everything just a bit so that the study is not so frantic would benefit it as a whole. In addition, while forty-five people allows for a decent sample, I would preferably have more participants, especially from a wider demographic. Forty-five people born within a ten-year window is not indicative of the population as a whole, so having a wider age range would be ideal.
My personal collection of film music is quite extensive, but, admittedly, there is a large amount of music that I do not own, so a second study would ideally utilize more music. I would also like to take out my own bias by having a sort of "committee" choose the film themes that would be used for the survey. Additionally, creating more categories would provide greater variety in ways that people can categorize the music, showing possible greater correlations between most and least recognizable film themes. Ensuring that everyone fills out every possible blank on the survey form would be excellent so that the data collected can be completely indicative of the population surveyed. Lastly, eliminating conversation and making sure that the survey environment is completely quiet would help in making sure that everyone's answers are their own and that everyone has equal opportunity to hear every clip in its entirety.
Starting out on this research project, I assumed that there was some sort of correlation that made a film's theme music recognizable or not, and the data collected seems to support this theory. There are several ways that this correlation manifests itself; the category ratings do not provide an obvious relation, but the release years and the average domestic box office gross certainly do. While studying this data, I could not help but think about how interesting all of this was, and I honestly hope that I get the opportunity to perform this survey again on a larger scale.
I hope you all liked the first post on my new supplemental blog to my ChadLikesMovies review site, ChadTalksMovies. Your feedback would be much appreciated; the future of this blog and what it becomes will rely quite a bit on what you all think!


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Black Friday creeps into Thursday
- Walmart, Target, Sears, etc., plan Thanksgiving openings
- Effort by stores to make holiday shopping more convenient
- 'Every retailer wants to beat everyone else,' a retail expert says
NEW YORK (AP) — Put down that turkey leg. It's time to shop. No, really.
Stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, named for the period when stores traditionally turn a profit for the year. But Black Friday openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie.
Wal-Mart Stores will have early bird shopping specials at 8 p.m., two hours earlier than a year ago. Target is opening its doors at 9 p.m. on the holiday, three hours earlier than last year. Sears, which didn't open on Thanksgiving last year, is opening during from 8 p.m. and will stay open until 10 p.m. on Black Friday. And Toys R Us will be opening at 8 p.m., an hour earlier than last year.
It's an effort by stores to make shopping more convenient for Americans, who still face economic uncertainty. Many shoppers are worried about high unemployment and a package of tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff" that will take effect in January unless Congress passes a budget deal by then. At the same time, Americans have grown more comfortable shopping on websites such as Amazon.com, where they can get cheaper prices and buy from the comfort of their home or office cubicle.
That has put pressure on brick-and-mortar stores, who can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the two-month holiday shopping season, to compete. That's becoming more difficult: the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, estimates that overall sales in November and December will rise 4.1% this year to $586.1 billion, or about flat with last year's growth. But the online part of that is expected to rise 15% to $68.4 billion, according to Forrester Research.
As a result, brick-and-mortar retailers are trying everything they can to lure consumers into stores by making shopping as easy as possible. In addition to expanding their hours into Thanksgiving, many are offering free layaways and shipping, matching the cheaper prices of online rivals and updating their mobile shopping apps with more information.
"Every retailer wants to beat everyone else," said C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, a research firm based in Charleston, S.C. "Shoppers love it."
Retailers are hoping that the Thanksgiving openings will draw shoppers who prefer to head to stores after their turkey dinner rather than braving the crowds early the next morning. Overall, about 17 percent of shoppers plan to take advantage of Thanksgiving hours, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers-Goldman Sachs survey of 1,000 consumers conducted from Nov. 15 to Nov. 18. Last year, that figure was 16 percent. For Black Friday, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, 33 percent intend to shop that day, slightly down from 34 percent in 2011.
But not everyone likes the idea of Turkey Day shopping. Some retailers that are opening on Thanksgiving face criticism from workers who complain that the holiday should be a time for everyone to spend with their family.
A New York-based union-backed group of retail workers called Retail Action Project is planning protests in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Thanksgiving in front of several stores, including AnnTaylor, Forever 21 and others that are opening at midnight on Black Friday and earlier.
"It shows that the companies are not valuing their workers. They're looking to their workers to squeeze out more profits," said Carrie Gleason, director of Retail Action Project.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been one of the biggest targets of protests against holiday hours. The issue is part of a broader campaign against the company's treatment of workers that's being waged by a union-backed group called OUR Walmart, which includes former and current workers. It's staging demonstrations and walkouts at hundreds of stores on Black Friday.
Mary Pat Tifft, a Wal-Mart employee in Kenosha, Wis., who is a member of OUR Walmart, started an online petition on signon.org that has about 34,000 signatures.
"This Thanksgiving, while millions of families plan to spend quality time with their loved ones, Wal-Mart associates have been told we will be stocking shelves and preparing sales starting at 8 p.m.," she wrote on the site.
But retailers say they are giving shoppers what they want. Dave Tovar, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said that the discounter learned from shoppers that they want to start shopping right after Thanksgiving dinner. Then, they want to have time to go to bed before they wake up to head back out to the stores.
Still, Tovar said that Wal-Mart works to accommodate its workers' requests for different working hours. "We spent a lot of time talking to them, trying to figure out when would be the best time for our events," he said.
Kathee Tesija, Target's executive vice president of merchandising, said Target's 9 p.m. opening struck "a perfect balance" for its customers. When asked whether it's faced any criticism from Target employees, she noted that the chain also works with workers to accommodate their needs. But, ultimately the company serves the customer.
"We thought long and hard about when the right opening time would be," she said, adding that Target "wants to make sure we are competitive."


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It had been a busy day when we went to Brisbane a couple of Saturdays ago. We visited the art gallery, strolled around South Bank and had lunch there. But the day was only half gone…
Passing through the University grounds on the way to the Botanic Gardens I went in search of "The Cube"
"The Cube is one of the world's largest interactive digital display systems. It is two storeys high, has 170m2 of high-definition screens, and includes 48 touch panels. It took our developers more than two years to build.
The Cube offers unprecedented learning and research opportunities for the community – from school students to scientists and engineers. Our researchers use the Cube to showcase their ideas and to visualise, model and manipulate big data sets."
With help from a security guard we found this impressive display and spent an hour pressing buttons and marvelling at the vision of being back in the time of the dinosaurs.
It was a few months ago that we came to see this but that was the day Jack fell and ended up in hospital. I've just checked back and found it was last August, (do you remember that? Check it here) certainly doesn't seem that long ago. Since that unfortunate accident we have been meaning to come back. So at long last we have made it…
But we did have another reason to be here today. We were meeting the family at 6pm at Kangaroo Point to see them rock climbing.
Still another couple of hours, so with a cup of take-away coffee we wandered over to the Botanical Gardens next to the university and sat watching the world go by.
Walking along I was drawn toward this magnificent display of marigolds. In the late afternoon sun they glowed.
Families made the most of this glorious weather.
In the background children frolicked in the playground.
Jack found another unusual seat/bench to rest on and after taking the photo I joined him.
But it was time to catch the ferry and go over to the other side of the river to find the family.
Can you see the ferry on the other side of the river? We will have to hurry to catch it.
The sun is going down behind the hi-rises of the CBD but the cliffs of Kangaroo Point are still painted vivid orange by the glow from the sun. (This photo has not been touched up at all, I could hardly believe the colours when I downloaded it)
I spot someone setting up the ropes for the rock climbing enthusiasts. Our family must be around here somewhere.
It is an interesting walk. I see a bridal party having a photo session.
Then I see the rock climbers.
That's our grandson almost at the top after scaling an almost vertical wall. What a great activity.
The sun has gone down now and the lights of Brisbane are turning on as the sun highlights the horizon in one last muted, orange glow.
What a day it has been. At 7-30pm we catch the train back to the Gold Coast. Arriving home, tired and ready for a cuppa, at 9-00pm
I am linking this post to Paula, "Lost in Translation", you may have guessed her theme this week is "glow"…
I would also like to join Jo "Restless Jo" and her intrepid band of world-wide walkers.


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Former police commander, university researcher, suspected ringleader's father testify.
MALATYA, Turkey, April 15 (Compass Direct News) – Two years after the murder of three Christians in this city in southeastern Turkey, lawyers at a hearing here on Monday (April 13) uncovered important information on the role that local security forces played in the slaughter.
At the 16th hearing of the murder case at the Malatya Third Criminal Court, plaintiff attorneys called a heavy slate of witnesses, including Mehmet Ulger, the gendarmerie commander of Malatya province during the April 2007 murders who was arrested on March 12 for his alleged connection to a political conspiracy, and Ruhi Abat, a theology instructor at the local Ismet Inonu University.
Two Turkish Christians, Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, and a German Christian, Tilmann Geske, were tied up and stabbed to death at Zirve Publishing Co. offices on April 18, 2007. Plaintiff attorneys have moved the focus of the trial away from the five suspects – Salih Gurler, Cuma Ozdemir, Hamit Ceker, Abuzer Yildirim, and alleged ringleader Emre Gunaydin – to local officials believed to be liaisons or masterminds of the murders.
The retired gendarmerie commander and the theology researcher have suspected links to the crime. In January an anonymous letter sent to Turkish churches and obtained by the media claimed that then-commander Ulger instigated the murders and directed Abat to prepare arguments against missionary activity.
According to phone records, Abat made 1,415 telephone calls to gendarmerie intelligence forces in the six-month period prior to the 2007 murders. During his cross examination, he told the courtroom that the frequent contact resulted from gendarmerie requesting information on his research of local missionary activity.
Abat was part of a team of six researchers that focused on the social effects of missionary activity within the Malatya region.
"The information I gave the police and gendarmerie was aimed at answering the criticisms that missionaries had about Islam," he said.
When plaintiff attorneys asked Ulger if this level of communication was typical, the former gendarmerie commander said that they communicated on other issues such as translating Arabic documents and further teaching engagements. But lawyers said this level of communication was unusual.
"He called the gendarmerie the equivalent of 10 times a day, seven days a week, which suggests something abnormal going on," said plaintiff attorney Orhan Kemal Cengiz. "You wouldn't talk that much to your mother."
In a heated exchange at the end of the hearing, Ozkan Yucel, plaintiff attorney representing the families of the victims, pressed Ulger to answer whether he considered Christian missionary activity in Turkey to be a crime.
Avoiding a direct answer, Ulger said no such crime existed in Turkey's penal system, but that gendarmerie classified such activity as "extreme right-wing."
"The gendarmerie considers this to be the same [level of extremism] as radical Islamic activity," he said.
Suspected Ringleader's Family Testifies
Onur Dulkadir, a cousin and former classmate of Gunaydin, the suspected ringleader, testified on his interactions with Gunaydin and Malatya's local Christian community prior to the murders.
Dulkadir claimed that a few months before the crime, he and Gunaydin attended a Christian meeting at a Malatya hotel where approximately 50 people were in attendance. He said they left when someone handed him a brochure about "missionary activity."
Dulkadir told the court that after they left, Gunaydin said, "I am watching how they structure themselves," and, "Very soon I am going to be rich." In past hearings, Gunaydin claimed the Turkish state had promised him support if he would carry out the attacks successfully.
Gunaydin's father, Mustafa Gunaydin, testified at the hearing that he didn't believe his son had led the group of five to commit the grisly murder of the three Christians, two of them converts from Islam.
"I went once a week to the jail to see my son, and every time I spoke with my son I tried to bring out the identity of those behind the murders," said Mustafa Gunaydin. "He swore to me there was nobody behind it . . . I still believe my son couldn't have done anything. My child is afraid of blood."
Mustafa Gunaydin works as a technician at Ismet Inonu University. Plaintiff attorneys asked him if he was acquainted with professor Fatih Hilmioglu, recently jailed in a mass arrest of professors associated with a national conspiracy known as Ergenekon. He replied that he knew Hilmioglu, but that he also knew about 70 percent of the university personnel and did not have a close friendship with the arrested professor.
The prosecuting attorneys have frequently contended that Ergenekon, a loose collection of ultra-nationalist generals, businessmen, mafia and journalists who planned to engineer domestic chaos and overthrow the Turkish government, instigated Emre Gunaydin to commit the murders.
Ulger was arrested as part of the Turkish state's investigations into Ergenekon.
Cryptic Comments
Among Emre Gunaydin's most prominent suspect links to Ergenekon is his jailed former co-worker Varol Bulent Aral, who was arrested in February for being a possible liaison between the five youths on trial for the murders and the true masterminds.
Hamit Ozpolat, owner of a newspaper and radio station in Adiyaman, testified at the hearing that Aral made cryptic comments in regard to his connections with the criminal organization. When Aral approached Ozpolat for a job at one of his news outlets, he declined his application, which he said resulted in Aral shouting threats against him. When police came, Ozpolat testified, Aral shouted, "You can't do anything to me, I am a member of the deep state."
Plaintiff attorneys have suspected a connection between the Malatya murder case and Ergenekon for several months, attempting to merge the two cases since last August.
But in a strange turn, the National Intelligence Agency (MIT) has issued a report claiming that Ergenekon and Christian missionary agencies were working together to destroy the Turkish nation. This claim would seem to contradict older Ergenekon documents that make reference to church members in Izmir, Mersin and Trabzon, three Turkish cities where Christians were attacked or killed in the following years.
Malatya plaintiff attorneys told Compass the theory of Christians wanting to destroy Turkey exists in the national consciousness but has no basis in reality.
"One of the core activities of Ergenekon is to struggle against missionary activity," plaintiff attorney Cengiz said. "They are very hostile against missionary activities, as they see them as an extension of the external enemies in Turkey."
On Monday (April 13), police raided the home of professor Turkan Saylan, 74-year old president of the Association for Support of Progressive Life (CYDD) and a cancer patient. The seven-hour raid took place on the basis of a MIT report stating her organization had received funds from the American Board, the oldest organization in Turkey with missionary status. The American Board is known in Turkey for building schools and hospitals and funding development projects.
Police reportedly raided her home and office in an attempt to find information linking CYDD finances to the American Board and proselytizing activities. Saylan's organization has opened three court cases against MIT for past accusations of missionary activities.
In an online report published by Haber50 today, Saylan said that her premises were raided as retaliation for the cases opened against MIT, which for years has been trying to destroy her organization's reputation in the press.
In addition, the report says Yasar Yaser, president of the Health and Education Association (SEV), used her organization's printing press in order to produce Bibles.
"The terrible truth is some media, including some Muslim newspapers, were very eager to cover this story," plaintiff attorney Cengiz said. He emphasized that suspicions of Christian groups in Turkey having such a subversive agenda were baseless.
This Saturday (April 18) will mark the second anniversary of the stabbing deaths of the three Christians. Churches across Turkey will commemorate the event through special services, and the Turkish Protestant Alliance has designated the day as an international day of prayer.
The next hearing of the case is scheduled to take place on May 22.
Report from Compass News Direct


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What started off as a grim year for smartphone sales turned into an optimistic look forward. 2012 saw record returns for Samsung and its arch rival Apple, as both companies experienced tremendous growth in sales numbers and worldwide market share. And with this year's handset models, the two competitors essentially set the precedent for what sells in today's smartphone market.
As consumers face an onslaught of sales from retailers—and as handset makers consistently push forward new models—the market has become more than just a two-tyke playground. Consumers should have choices like never before in 2013, what with RIM trying for a comeback and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 aiming to take off. Ars chatted with a few analysts about what the 2013 landscape might look like, which brands will make it through the year into the next, and which companies will need to straighten up their act to make it at all.
All hail king (or queen?) Samsung
A look at the third-quarter results provided by Canalys shows Samsung currently reigns as the top vendor on the market: 55.5 million smartphones sold last quarter. This is largely due to the handset offerings the company pushed forward within the last year, including the top-selling Galaxy SIII. Samsung managed to increase its global market share from 22 percent this time last year to 32 percent. It also nearly doubled its profit in the third quarter, hitting its very own all-time record for handset shipments. Overall, Samsung made about $47.6 billion in sales and increased revenue by 26 percent.
Samsung's advantage here—and the reason it remains on top—is that its consumers know it by brand. The name "iPhone" is synonymous with Apple's smartphone, and the word "Galaxy" is just as well-regarded. "Consumers know their Galaxy," Carolina Milanesi, research VP of consumer devices at Gartner, told Ars. "Some know Galaxy before they know Samsung."
It also helps that Samsung offers smartphones across many different carriers to further establish its leadership in the Android sphere. It will be interesting to see if Samsung can have the same success with its Ativ smartphones in the Windows Phone lineup. "It's going to be a little harder in the beginning," explained Milanesi. "Right now it seems that their Windows Phone approach is very cautious. They only have one device shipping."
Samsung's plan with the Windows Phone 8 lineup may be to sit and wait until consumers are really sold on the brand. So far, Nokia has the most well-known Windows Phone handset, and breaking that notion will be difficult. Still, Samsung has a leg-up with its halo effect. "[Samsung has a] big leadership in TV and is kind of seen as an innovator," Forrester Principal Analyst Charles Golvin told Ars. "They transformed themselves from being a fast follower to an innovator with new capabilities. They're clearly positioned as a leader with the various devices that they make."
The unstoppable iPhone
Keeping with the playground idea, if Samsung is first, Apple can confidently claim "second is the best." The September 21 launch of the iPhone 5 means it came out too late to be included in Canalys' third quarter sales figures, but Apple is still holding strong. The Cupertino-based company holds the number two spot with 26.9 million iPhone units sold. Shipments of the venerable handset have grown 57.6 percent since last year. It helps that, like Samsung's offerings, the iPhone is available on almost every major carrier. It's also possible the numbers could get even higher with the iPhone 5 as more people switch over their two-year contracts.
Golvin said that despite Android's diversity in price, it still won't keep spendthrift consumers from switching mobile platforms. Previously, price sensitive consumers were relegated to Android phones because of the iPhone's exclusivity on AT&T. But now that it's more widely available, consumers can use the carrier's subsidized price to get an iPhone 4S for little to nothing. "It's an important change, because now these entry-level, price-conscious smartphone buyers have more choice," continued Golvin. "They have an iPhone on the table that is a potential solution."
This could also help tilt unit sales in the iPhone's favor going into the new year. "I think there will be a good list on iPhone 4 and 4S sales as a result of [the carriers] being able to offer that product fully subsidized," Golvin said.
While the iPhone 5 is sure to be a big seller this holiday season, it will be interesting to see if it keeps the fervor going once the phone hits the half-year mark in 2013. Consumers could instead start putting away cash for the next iteration of the device. Though Apple now typically launches its new handsets closer to the holiday season, the company may not want to cede the market to other smartphone makers during the "off" season. Ultimately though, past figures have shown the iPhone remains a strong seller no matter how close the date gets to the next iPhone release.
The little guys
Sony comes in as the number three handset maker in the world according to Canalys. The company sold about 8.8 million units worldwide. Although its market share in the US still isn't much—less than 0.5 percent—it's holding strong globally. According to Golvin, Sony has always had better traction in Europe because of the Ericsson brand. In the US market, Sony's disadvantage is that it doesn't offer many CDMA products, which limits the company mostly to AT&T and T-Mobile.
LG also saw tremendous growth last quarter. This surprised analysts, as the company has been struggling to make a profit since 2011. Its sales went up nine percent for the third quarter and about seven million phones were sold. Seventy percent of its revenue this quarter also came from smartphone sales, and LG says it's because it met the demand for LTE-capable handsets.
Despite the good news for LG, the company's market share has severely diminished since Q3 2011. Last year it had about 4.8 percent global handset market share, but that dropped down to 3.3 percent this year, according to Gartner's numbers. The company's lack of traction with its Android handsets in the US may have hurt its global significance, and its entrance into Google's Nexus program might not help too much, either.
"To be honest, LG is the least clear of these players," said Golvin. He says LG has attempted to mirror what Samsung has done with its Android handsets: introduce a broad product lineup that includes every type of handset from top to bottom and offer different models from entry-level to the high end. "I think that the question mark here is how much traction LG is going to get with the big operators for a premier device," added Golvin. "Can they displace or put themselves alongside Samsung with a product that the market will see as good as the SIII? They don't seem to have captured the mind share of consumers in the way that Samsung has."
HTC also has some catching up to do. Though it managed to stay ahead of RIM in fourth place, Canalys showed the company still only attracted 4.8 percent of the global smartphone market share last quarter. The company launched its One series of Android handsets earlier this year ahead of the iPhone 5, but that wasn't enough to give it an edge (or get its name back on the public's radar). In total, HTC sold only about 8.4 million smartphones and fell about 36 percent from last year's earnings.
Again, the problem here is that HTC has no outstanding brand name. The company once had the "new kid on the block" persona when it was first brought to Verizon as the flagship Android manufacturer. Since then, the company has had problems evolving with the times. The "Droid" branding once bestowed upon HTC has since been passed over to Motorola. Though HTC's Sense UI is one of the more usable versions of the OEM Android overlays (in this writer's opinion, anyway), the company has done nothing to advertise that. Its 1080p Droid DNA might not help it either: with 7-inch tablets infiltrating the market, its phones might be getting too big. To make matters worse, Samsung has already captivated that niche market with its Note. "They need to stand out. At the moment, they don't," said Milanesi. "They might have a chance in the Windows ecosystem, but with Nokia it's going to be hard. They need to put more muscle in advertising and really understand who they want to be."
RIM's comeback?
Still trailing behind is Canadian-based RIM. The company was once revered for its secure, business-ready handsets, but now it's teetering on life support. RIM managed to sell 7.3 million handsets last quarter, which puts it at a 38.4 percent loss since last year's Q3 financial results. Its last handset release was the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930, which hit Verizon Wireless and Sprint last summer. To add insult to injury, more and more companies are ditching RIM and its BlackBerrys for other smartphones (Yahoo being one of the latest). Its current market share stands at 2.1 percent among overall handsets on Gartner's charts and 4.2 percent among smartphones according to Canalys.
RIM does have some new products coming down the pipeline, including its new BlackBerry 10 operating system. That's on track for a Q1 2013 release, and a slew of new handsets could give the OS the boost it needs. RIM is also doing whatever it can to garner interest from developers to distribute their apps within the BlackBerry App World. RIM opened its virtual marketplace to Android developers in the hopes that it could attract this population to fill App World with quality applications.
Regardless, RIM still has a difficult journey ahead. "It's going to be hard," Milanesi said. "Their big problem is the ecosystem and convincing developers that they have a shot. In the enterprise space, they've let somebody else in." Thanks to security advancements, enterprise users can now utilize iOS and Android devices instead of BlackBerry ones. Additionally, consumers have moved on from what RIM offered exclusively, like BlackBerry Messaging and Exchange e-mail support.
Essentially, it's going to come down to where RIM fits in the bigger picture. Consumers learned to stick with one ecosystem, which keeps them locked into one platform if they've already put forth the investment. "A lot of customers have gone to iPhone and Android, and they're probably not coming back," Golvin said. "These [new BlackBerry] devices will do well among RIM loyalists, but I think it's going to be really hard for them to win customers back."
2013: Four ecosystems to rule them all
There's no doubt in Golvin's mind that iOS and Android will continue to dominate in 2013, but there's also plenty of optimism about Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform. "I do expect to see Microsoft gain," he said. "There was a time when Microsoft had a more meaningful share of smartphones overall. I expect 2013 to be a bit of a rebound year—I think they're going to finally reverse [the downward] trend and start to see some uptick." Golvin added that with Microsoft's overall UI change in its desktop software, consumers will become a little more familiar with Windows Phone 8. This will give the platform a chance to become more relevant. "With people having that common experience with PCs and tablets, now [the UI] is going to be less of an issue."
Overall, 2013 looks to be a promising year for companies that have already pushed forward as the manufacturers to beat. Samsung and Apple will remain in the top spots as long as both companies continue to offer their premium products on all major carriers (and the smaller ones, too). The others playing catch-up—HTC, LG, and Sony—will have a tougher time unless they change their marketing strategies or strike up new deals with carriers. As for RIM, it's possible the company will keep its headway with old school loyalists and those who remember the brand for how trustworthy it once was. But the company will have a tough time attracting new customers otherwise—as the numbers clearly show, many other users are already locked into and happy with other ecosystems.


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I70.722 - Atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities with rest pain, left leg
|Short Description:
|Athscl type of bypass of the extrm w rest pain, left leg
|Long Description:
|Atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities with rest pain, left leg
|Valid for Submission
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I70.722 is a billable ICD-10 code used to specify a medical diagnosis of atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities with rest pain, left leg. The code is valid during the fiscal year 2023 from October 01, 2022 through September 30, 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
The code I70.722 is applicable to adult patients aged 15 through 124 years inclusive. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a patient outside the stated age range.
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index:
- - Arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic (diffuse) (obliterans) (of) (senile) (with calcification) - I70.90
- - with
- - critical limb ischemia
- - bypass graft - I70.329
- - specified graft NEC - I70.729
- - leg - I70.729
- - left - I70.722
- - with
- - rest pain (and intermittent claudication) - I70.722
- - with
- - left - I70.722
- - leg - I70.729
- - specified graft NEC - I70.729
- - bypass graft - I70.329
- - critical limb ischemia
- - extremities (native arteries) - I70.209
- - bypass graft - I70.309
- - specified graft NEC - I70.709
- - bypass graft - I70.309
- - with
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Adult diagnoses - The Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies in adult cases by checking a patient's age and any diagnosis on the patient's record. The adult code edits apply to patients age range is 15–124 years inclusive (e.g., senile delirium, mature cataract).
Convert to ICD-9 Code
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|Target ICD-9 Code
|440.30 - Athscl extrm bps gft NOS
|Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.
Patient Education
Atherosclerosis is a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries. Plaque is a sticky substance made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances found in the blood. Over time, plaque hardens and narrows your arteries. That limits the flow of oxygen-rich blood to your body.
Atherosclerosis can lead to serious problems, including:
- Coronary artery disease. These arteries supply blood to your heart. When they are blocked, you can suffer angina or a heart attack.
- Carotid artery disease. These arteries supply blood to your brain. When they are blocked you can suffer a stroke.
- Peripheral arterial disease. These arteries are in your arms, legs and pelvis. When they are blocked, you can suffer from numbness, pain and sometimes infections.
Atherosclerosis usually doesn't cause symptoms until it severely narrows or totally blocks an artery. Many people don't know they have it until they have a medical emergency.
A physical exam, imaging, and other diagnostic tests can tell if you have it. Medicines can slow the progress of plaque buildup. Your doctor may also recommend procedures such as angioplasty to open the arteries, or surgery on the coronary or carotid arteries. Lifestyle changes can also help. These include following a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, quitting smoking, and managing stress.
NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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Peripheral Arterial Disease
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) happens when there is a narrowing of the blood vessels outside of your heart. The cause of PAD is atherosclerosis. This happens when plaque builds up on the walls of the arteries that supply blood to the arms and legs. Plaque is a substance made up of fat and cholesterol. It causes the arteries to narrow or become blocked. This can reduce or stop blood flow, usually to the legs. If severe enough, blocked blood flow can cause tissue death and can sometimes lead to amputation of the foot or leg.
The main risk factor for PAD is smoking. Other risk factors include older age and diseases like diabetes, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke.
Many people who have PAD don't have any symptoms. If you have symptoms, they may include:
- Pain, numbness, achiness, or heaviness in the leg muscles. This happens when walking or climbing stairs.
- Weak or absent pulses in the legs or feet
- Sores or wounds on the toes, feet, or legs that heal slowly, poorly, or not at all
- A pale or bluish color to the skin
- A lower temperature in one leg than the other leg
- Poor nail growth on the toes and decreased hair growth on the legs
- Erectile dysfunction, especially among men who have diabetes
PAD can increase your risk of heart attack, stroke, and transient ischemic attack.
Doctors diagnose PAD with a physical exam and heart and imaging tests. Treatments include lifestyle changes, medicines, and sometimes surgery. Lifestyle changes include dietary changes, exercise, and efforts to lower high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure.
NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
[Learn More in MedlinePlus]
Code History
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)


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Vampire Diaries fans, prepare yourselves for a major death.
"There are huge deaths coming up, one in particular," star Kat Graham tells TVGuide.com. "It's one of the most amazing scripts I've read; I actually cried when I read it!"
5 reasons why The Vampire Diaries' Klaus isn't any worse than Stefan or Damon
Yes, we know on a supernatural show, death is inevitable and not always meaningful, but Graham says this one will stick. "It's actually one of the biggest deaths since the beginning of The Vampire Diaries," Graham says. "It'll change the nature of the series; it'll change the nature of the characters going forward; it'll change the dynamic; it will completely alter everything."
Will one of the Salvatore brothers actually kill the other? Will Klaus betray his love Caroline and stake her? Will Jeremy lose a battle as the Hunter? Will Bonnie's magic once and for all be too much for her body to take? Share your theories below and vote in our poll!
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Topic Overview
Is thumb-sucking normal?
Thumb-sucking is normal in babies and young children. Most babies and toddlers suck their thumbs. They may also suck on their fingers, hands, or items such as pacifiers.
Little by little, most children stop on their own at age 3 to 6 years.
Why do babies suck their thumbs?
Babies have a natural urge to suck. This urge usually decreases after the age of 6 months. But many babies continue to suck their thumbs to soothe themselves. Thumb-sucking can become a habit in babies and young children who use it to comfort themselves when they feel hungry, afraid, restless, quiet, sleepy, or bored.
In rare cases, thumb-sucking after age 5 is in response to an emotional problem or other disorder, such as anxiety.
Does thumb-sucking cause any problems?
Thumb-sucking in children younger than 4 is usually not a problem. Children who suck their thumbs often or with great intensity around age 4 or 5, or those who are still sucking their thumbs at age 6, are at risk for dental or speech problems.
Prolonged thumb-sucking may cause the teeth to become improperly aligned (malocclusion) or push the teeth outward. This usually corrects itself when the child stops thumb-sucking. But the longer thumb-sucking continues, the more likely it is that orthodontic treatment will be needed.
Speech problems caused by thumb-sucking can include not being able to say Ts and Ds, lisping, and thrusting out the tongue when talking.
When does a child need treatment for thumb-sucking?
Many experts recommend ignoring thumb-sucking in a child who is preschool age or younger.
Children who suck their thumbs may need treatment when they:
- Continue to suck a thumb often or with great intensity around age 4 or older. (A callus on the thumb is one sign of intense sucking.)
- Ask for help to stop.
- Develop dental or speech problems as a result of sucking their thumbs.
- Feel embarrassed or are teased or shamed by other people.
How is problem thumb-sucking treated?
Simple home treatment measures stop most children from sucking their thumbs. But if your child has a sucking habit around age 4 or older, schedule a visit with your child's doctor or dentist.
At home, treatment includes parents setting rules and providing distractions. It may help to limit the times and places that your child is allowed to suck his or her thumb and to put away blankets or other items your child associates with thumb-sucking. Putting gloves on your child's hands or wrapping the thumb with an adhesive bandage or a cloth may help remind your child not to suck the thumb.
Offering praise, positive attention, and rewards for not thumb-sucking may also help your child break the habit. For example, put stickers on a calendar each day that your child doesn't suck his or her thumb. After an agreed-upon number of days, have a celebration for your child.
Don't shame or punish your child for thumb-sucking. This will only lower your child's self-esteem.
If home treatment doesn't work and you are concerned or feel frustrated about your child's thumb-sucking, talk with your child's doctor. There may be other treatment options, such as behavioral therapy, thumb devices, or devices for the mouth. But remember that thumb-sucking usually isn't a problem in children at preschool age or younger. Most children will stop on their own if you give them time.
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Internet Explorer's desktop market share, which has been in a near-constant free-fall since 2003, held steady in November. Meanwhile, Chrome has moved to within striking distance of Firefox, with Mozilla's browser likely to lose its second place spot within the next few months.
Microsoft's browser gained a fraction, 0.01 points, for a total desktop share of 52.64 percent. Firefox dropped 0.37 points, for a share of 22.14 percent. Chrome gained 0.56 points, standing at 17.62 percent. Safari is down 0.43 points to 5.00 percent. Opera's share was essentially unchanged, down 0.01 points to 1.55 percent.
All in all, an unusual month. Chrome continues to be the only steady climber, but in November, its gains appeared to come at the expense of Firefox and Safari. Google's browser has been gaining at a rate of about half a point to a point each month, with no signs of slowing down. With Firefox treading water at best, and declining at worst, Chrome should overtake the Mozilla browser within the next four to six months.
Further evidence of this transition comes from StatCounter. StatCounter counts raw pageviews rather than making any attempt to gauge the number of users, so its numbers are not directly comparable to the Net Market Share figures we use. However, they are still instructive: in November, global traffic from Chrome overtook traffic from Firefox for the first time ever.
The mobile browser market continues to show substantial volatility. Safari and Opera Mini appeared to trade about 7 points—with Apple the loser in that transaction. The Android browser also declined. More surprisingly, Symbian and BlackBerry OS's browsers both saw growth, up 0.48 and 0.73 points, respectively.
Aggregating across both mobile and desktop markets, Internet Explorer's market share did still fall: mobile browsing grew during November, and this was enough to offset that tiny 0.01 point gain.
The version breakdowns for Chrome and Firefox follow the same pattern as has been seen over the past several months. Chrome's automatic upgrading is working well for most users, albeit with a slowly growing tail of non-upgraders.
Firefox's users are having a much harder time of things. Mozilla's failure to provide a robust automatic update process and refusal to force extensions to use a fixed, consistent programmatic interface means that upgrading requires manual intervention, and stands a good chance of breaking extensions. As a result, its rapid releases aren't showing the same clean cut overs and high adoption that Chrome achieves.
Internet Explorer's version breakdown is quite astonishing. The drops in both Internet Explorer 7 and 8, and gains by Internet Explorer 9, are consistent with recent history. The gain by Internet Explorer 6, however, is not. That browser's share has grown, from 7.5 percent to 8.33. This 0.83 point gain is more than even Internet Explorer 9 managed; that added only 0.47 points to its share in November.
Without Internet Explorer 6's gains, Redmond's browser would have lost share this month. While Microsoft is no doubt pleased that its downward slide has been halted—at least for November—the manner in which it has done so should temper that pleasure.
Here at Ars, Internet Explorer and Chrome both gained; Safari and Firefox both fell. Among mobile browsers, Android is closing the gap with Safari.
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Avoid commonly returned gifts at holidays
By Meghan Rizzo, Contributing Writer
Post-holiday returns, inconvenient as they are, have become a part of the holiday tradition.
However, though you might have to grin and bear it when your elderly great aunt hands you a carefully wrapped gift box containing – gasp! – a garish red sweater with embossed images of reindeer and snowflakes, with some knowledge of consumer trends, you might save your loved ones from similar fates when you bestow your carefully chosen gifts on them.
According to an article at pr-inside.com, a study conducted reveals the gifts most often returned at Kohl's department stores: "Gift recipients say they are most likely to return clothing (74 percent), followed by items for their home (11 percent), beauty or fragrance products (8 percent), electronics (5 percent) and jewelry or watches (2 percent)."
No matter how luxurious that cashmere sweater may seem, if it doesn't fit, it's useless. The recipient's size must always be taken into account, but sizes are not the same among all manufacturers.
One must also consider taste. Does the recipient follow the trends or prefer to stick with the classics? Though you might think your sister will look stunning in a pair of skinny jeans, she might be perfectly content in her well-worn and torn 10-year-old Levis.
When buying clothes, always include a gift receipt in the box and don't be offended if you never see the recipient wearing your gift.
Items for the Home
Unless you are positive that your recipient is without a slow cooker, do not buy one for him. In buying home goods, you are at great risk for giving duplicates.
When it comes to home decor, again, taste comes into account. Are you familiar with the color scheme of your aunt's apartment? Do you know whether she is going for a classic look, an Asian theme, or rustic, country warmth? Also understand that part of the fun of decorating one's abode is in choosing the items! A gift certificate to Bed Bath and Beyond or Art.com is a great way to motivate your loved one to fill those empty spaces on the walls with items that suit her personal taste.
Beauty, Fragrance Products
People are particular about their beauty products. Everyone has his or her favorites. In giving such gifts, now is not the time for experimentation. Even if you think a make-over or a change is in order, find out what your recipient likes, and stick with it.
Electronics and Jewelry
According to the survey, these gifts are pretty safe bets. Pricier electronics are usually on an individual's wish list in which case they are a safe buy — unless you have failed to coordinate with other family members and two or more people end up purchasing the same item.
Regarding jewelry, variety is welcome. There is an outfit that will coordinate with almost any pretty bauble. Here is an opportunity for you to be creative in your gift-giving.
A few commonly returned gifts were not mentioned in the survey, one of these being obnoxious toys.
Andrea, mother to two boys, 6 and 8, is eager to encourage their interest in music. However, that does not mean she is ready to welcome a full drum kit into her living room.
"I work from home," she says, "and peace and quiet are necessary for fulfilling my business obligations — not to mention maintaining my sanity."
Such sentiments are echoed among parents around the world. When shopping for little ones, bypass the noisy electronic toys and stick with items that stimulate the imagination. Legos, for example, will never go out of style.
Pets given as gifts, sadly, often find their way back to the shelter. Adopting a pet is a personal decision. As much as your girlfriend fantasizes about owning an exotic Sugar-Glider, does she really have the room in her apartment for a six foot tall habitat? Your nephew might be begging for a puppy, but your brother-in-law might be terribly allergic to that little ball of fluff with the big red bow attached to his collar.
When buying gifts, use common sense and don't fear the gift card. People have more 'stuff' than ever, and sometimes choice is the most welcome gift of all.


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So what's the secret? EverTouch is crafted with fine-denier filaments. The smaller denier, which is a weight-per-unit-length measurement, produces the supple touch, while advanced yarn engineering accounts for the superior durability.
In contrast to their softness, EverTouch carpets are tough enough for
any room in the home. As with all Shaw carpets, each style is rigorously
tested and given an appearance-retention performance rating. Test results
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products made from traditional nylon fiber systems.
And EverTouch is as beautiful as it is soft. From luxurious and comfortable cut piles to sophisticated loop styles, Shaw's EverTouch collection offers unmatched options. From traditional to contemporary, there is an EverTouch carpet to complement every taste.
All EverTouch carpets come with SoftBac Platinum to enhance the overall feel of the carpet, as well as R2X, Shaw's patented combined stain and soil resistance treatment that provides unequaled protection.
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